Lisa Allpress
Trish Dunell
Champion jockey Lisa Allpress is taking a glass half full attitude along her lengthy road back to full fitness.
Her husband Karl and their children Josh and Angus will have her undivided attention during the recovery process following a serious leg injury in October that cut short her riding stint in Japan.
"It's lovely to be able to spend much more time with them," she said.
Allpress, who was named the Wanganui Sportswoman of the Year on Friday night, recently returned home to Wanganui to continue her rehabilitation following surgery in Japan.
"I broke the top of my tibia and the piece of bone that came off broke into quite a few pieces," she said. "They wired it all together so it was pretty major surgery."
Allpress was in her second riding spell in Japan when she parted company with a two-year-old on their way to the barrier.
"For the first month my leg was completely straight and last week the physiotherapist changed it a bit so I'm more mobile," she said.
"I'll have the brace on for a while yet, but it's going pretty well really."
The 41-year-old hasn't an exact date yet on her return to race riding. "They are saying four to six months so we'll just have to wait and see," she said.
Allpress is the current New Zealand jockeys' premiership champion after an outstanding 2015-16 season that was rewarded with 171 winners.
In other jockey news, Opie Bosson will resume his New Zealand career at Ellerslie on Saturday after cutting short, by mutual agreement, his contract in Hong Kong. – NZ Racing Desk.
Her husband Karl and their children Josh and Angus will have her undivided attention during the recovery process following a serious leg injury in October that cut short her riding stint in Japan.
"It's lovely to be able to spend much more time with them," she said.
Allpress, who was named the Wanganui Sportswoman of the Year on Friday night, recently returned home to Wanganui to continue her rehabilitation following surgery in Japan.
"I broke the top of my tibia and the piece of bone that came off broke into quite a few pieces," she said. "They wired it all together so it was pretty major surgery."
Allpress was in her second riding spell in Japan when she parted company with a two-year-old on their way to the barrier.
"For the first month my leg was completely straight and last week the physiotherapist changed it a bit so I'm more mobile," she said.
"I'll have the brace on for a while yet, but it's going pretty well really."
The 41-year-old hasn't an exact date yet on her return to race riding. "They are saying four to six months so we'll just have to wait and see," she said.
Allpress is the current New Zealand jockeys' premiership champion after an outstanding 2015-16 season that was rewarded with 171 winners.
In other jockey news, Opie Bosson will resume his New Zealand career at Ellerslie on Saturday after cutting short, by mutual agreement, his contract in Hong Kong. – NZ Racing Desk.
